During the Ming Dynasty, there was an old rich man named Meng Haoyuan in Wenzhou. He went out to do business all year round and rarely went home once a year or two.
Recently, Meng Haoyuan felt homesickness and was about to drive home. It was midnight when he arrived at the village entrance. He saw his daughter-in-law Huang Zhihua by the river in the village entrance. Huang Zhihua was cleaning the bed sheets at that time. Meng Haoyuan got off the car and came to Huang Zhihua and chatted with her for a few words.
Meng Haoyuan, who has been living outside for many years, has met many people of different character and has a wide range of experience. During his conversation with Huang Zhihua, he found that Huang Zhihua's eyes were dodging, as if there was something hidden from Meng Haoyuan. Meng Haoyuan did not force his daughter-in-law to ask, and returned home after the greetings.
Meng Haoyuan's son is Meng Shentong. He did not inherit his father's ambition, but embarked on the road of imperial examinations. He went to take the imperial examination a few days ago. Meng Haoyuan lost his wife in middle age and did not hire other slaves at home. Now he and his daughter-in-law live at home.
Huang Zhihua was very hardworking. She cooked a sumptuous meal for Meng Haoyuan. After the meal, Meng Haoyuan returned to the room to rest. He was suddenly awakened by a rustling sound in the middle of the night. He got up and checked outside and found that the lights in his daughter-in-law's room were on and the sound was coming from her room.
Meng Haoyuan put his ear on the door, but he didn't hear any sound. Instead, he alarmed his daughter-in-law. Huang Zhihua opened the door and ran into Meng Haoyuan. The two of them were embarrassed for a while and went back to their room to rest, but never got up again in the middle.
The next evening, Meng Haoyuan wandered around the village for a few boring times and chatted with neighbors. When he passed by the village, he found that his daughter-in-law was washing bed sheet there. Didn’t the sheet just wash yesterday? Why did she come to wash it again today? Meng Haoyuan felt something was wrong, and he paid more attention to his daughter-in-law in the next few days.
Through Meng Haoyuan's careful observation, he found that his daughter-in-law washes the bed sheet every evening. He curiously broke into his daughter-in-law's room in the early morning, lifted the quilt and checked it. He found a trace of water on the bed sheet. Then his daughter-in-law returned to the room, and Meng Haoyuan quickly put the quilt down.
Now Meng Haoyuan can basically conclude that his daughter-in-law had an affair with others in private, but Meng Haoyuan never found who the person was. He was guarding outside the door of his daughter-in-law's room all day long, and he could not see a strange man entering his daughter-in-law's room.
Late at night on that day, Meng Haoyuan got up at night. When he passed by the door of his daughter-in-law's room, he heard his daughter-in-law's panting from inside. He immediately fucked a stick and kicked the door open, but found that there was only daughter-in-law on the bed. At this time, she was messy and her face was covered with tears. Everything reached its present level. Meng Haoyuan had to expose his suspicion about his daughter-in-law in person.
Huang Zhihua kept shaking her head to deny it, but she refused to defend herself. Seeing that she couldn't ask anything from her daughter-in-law, Meng Haoyuan closed the door and searched everything in the room. He found a centipede as thick as a bowl in the closet.
The centipede rushed towards Meng Haoyuan. Meng Haoyuan did not dare to be negligent, and swung the centipede's head with a stick, knocked the centipede fainted, then found an axe, removed the centipede spirit from eight pieces, and threw the wreck outside and fed the dog.
Huang Zhihua saw that the centipede spirit was removed and told the truth about the matter. It turned out that after her husband Meng Shentong left home, a centipede spirit suddenly came to the house. The centipede spirit forced Huang Zhihua and did not allow Huang Zhihua to disclose it to the outside world, otherwise it would have taken the lives of the whole village.
However, after a few struggles, Huang Zhihua found that the centipede demon did not have much ability, and Meng Haoyuan easily got rid of it. Only then did she dare to reveal all this matter to Meng Haoyuan.
The centipede spirit was hidden in Huang Zhihua's room during the day and would not appear until night. Huang Zhihua was timid. She was afraid that the centipede spirit would do something, so she never dared to resist. She was frightened by the centipede spirit and wet the bed every night, so she washed the bed sheets every day.
The centipede spirit is very alert. Every time an outsider comes, it will hide it very quickly. If Meng Haoyuan hadn't rummaged through the cabinet, perhaps no one would have discovered its existence.
Because Huang Zhihua was coerced, Meng Haoyuan naturally did not blame his daughter-in-law. Meng Shentong also knew about this after returning home. He had the same attitude as his father and did not divorce his wife because of this. Meng Haoyuan stayed at home for a few days, and then embarked on the road of doing business again. Huang Zhihua also lives happily with her husband.
